Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right in wanting to bury gold as a monetary reserve. It would be dangerous to make the official wealth of the world's nations dependent upon the erratic supplies of a metal that comes largely from South Africa and the Soviet Union, whose governments can pump up or cut off sales at will. But gold will continue to glitter until a stable and acceptable monetary substitute can be found. In theory, there is nothing wrong with continuing to use the dollar as the world's primary currency for international trading and holdings of national reserves...
Midway through the second period the networks cut the disaster off the air. No one ever did learn the final score. Congress scheduled hearings on the affair. Kissinger mournfully intoned that once again the Carter Administration had not understood the use of power: we should never have given the Soviets the ball...
...candy store is open every day of the week," writes Asimov of those early days. "In some respects, it made me an orphan." The demands of the store cut him off from his parents; Isaac's behavior severed him from his contemporaries. For he was not only brighter than his older classmates, he was eager to make them aware of his stratospheric...
...Kris Hodgkins in the giant slalom and captain Vera Fajtova's 20th in the slalom were the largest point-getters for the women, who were in for another surprise at the end when they learned that the women's Division I may be cut down to only nine teams next year, meaning the Crimson would be bumped down to Division...
...works designed for the station's exterior should blend smoothly with the lines of the building. They don't. For the outer court, David Phillips has designed a series of cut stones for the plaza. "I have never thought of myself as a stone carver," he writes. "I didn't want to remove material or change the essential nature." Yet he has not only cut and placed stones to clutter the plaza. He, like Harries, has decided his objects would look better bronzed. The effect, if one takes the model as an indicator of things to come, is terribly pretentious...